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Have you noticed that among blacks, in particular ghetto, black, entitled mentality, foul-mouthed vagrant black “Christians” are the primary sociopathic bullies of other blacks? Whether in the hood, in the office, public thoroughfares or at the grocer these often dark-skinned blacks plagued with Attachment Disorder expose their narcissism by targeting productive, talented, intelligent blacks? One can easily dismiss any need for further analysis and just say, “I guess that’s how they were raised,” which is indeed an indicator of their social dysfunction and failure to integrate into reasonable society. These ill-mannered, foul-mouthed black males come from certain households in which their black mamas excuse, justify and coddled them into believing this is acceptable behavior. Regardless of the initial triggers (whether it’s nature, nurture, a combination of both or inherent evil), one can readily witness when those same blacks see their targets become successful they are the first ones to bemoan on various social media platforms how successful blacks “never did nuffin’ for blacks” or “don’t help black people out”?

Where do these reverse-logic negroes derive such audacity to be awarded for negative, criminal behavior that they directed to members of their own people. Regardless of your personal beliefs or observations of their lifestyles, the primary focus is to analyze their experiences with blacks (their own people) and how it caused them to separate from them in a sense. Let’s take a look at couple of examples:

OprahWinfrey: She started off as a journalist, became a talk show host (The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Next Chapter) and now a media mogul (O Magazine, Harpo Studios, OWN network). She stated that early in her career that in Baltimore, they did not treat her right. That’s no surprise where certain dysfunctional mentalities are considered normal by those who possess them. As a child, she was abused by black “Christian” members of her family. Surprise, surprise, ghetto black “Christians” mistreating members of their own race. These same types are inexplicably beleaguered when she becomes a founder of a school for the development of African children in desolate areas to the dismay of those same entitled blacks who demanded that she invest in Baltimore City Schools—the same city of blacks where she was mistreated. One can estimate that as a child in the South, she was likely teased about her appearance by other blacks—yet these same kinds of blacks believe their superficial commonality on a color spectrum dictates that she owes them something despite their years of abuse towards her. NEXT.

WillSmith: He is known from being from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and from a tough neighborhood. He began his entertainment career as a rapper with DJ Jazzy Jeff. Then he pursued an acting career and became the lead actor on the television program ‘The Fresh Prince of Belair.’ Thereafter, he progressed to become an in demand Hollywood actor. Despite his circumstances and at the urging of his mother, he tried to focus on his lessons. He said that black boys (ghetto black “Christians”) bullied him for studying and would knock books out of his hands when he walked to and from school as well as beat him up. It reminds me of the comedian Chris Rock’s joke with the overarching topic of N*#@!# vs. Black People in which he assailed disruptive, inner city, entitled, destructive blacks who declared “Don’t come to me with that readin’ and writin’ s#@!….countin’ these rocks b@yaatch.” He is now successful, and the hood rats have gotten the hint that he would never associate with them or their types.

…and even when a black person decides despite their upbringing and abuse by members of their own people, to “give back” to his “community” he realizes that it was a waste of money and a bad investment to redeem neighborhoods plagued with the ghetto black pagan “Christian” mentality of entitlement and self-destruction. Let’s review the example of ex-NBA basketball player Derrick Coleman whose investment into these types of communities heavily contributed to him filing personal bankruptcy:

But wait, there’s more. These ghetto black pagan “Christian” vagabonds will verbally abuse, yell expletives towards female strangers, Sunni Muslim women of their own race, disrespect their elders and street harass, assault, rape and verbally abuse black women in general; then exhibit no qualms in playing the ‘black man is victim’ card and demand all blacks and broader society support them. Pretty pathetic isn’t it? Yet, this core group of nonsensical blacks cannot comprehend when decent members of their race and the broader society does not want to deal with their nonsense and foolishness.

It’s called having standards. Theirs are apparently nearly non-existent.

Perhaps we all need to re-read ‘The MisEducation of the Negro’ by Carter G. Woodson, in it the author historian explains that as blacks strive to improve their own circumstances, attain higher levels of understanding, as well as those who are already inclined to clean living, a natural rift expands, culturally and spiritually between decent blacks and those who seek to destroy the former –the crabs in the barrel mentality. Some refer to it as the separation of the chaff from the wheat, the productive useful portion of the population (at least in theory barring external factors such as the economy and institutionalized discrimination) become elevated on different levels, while those bitter, entitled criminals and black devils stay in the same position that their sick mentality bore them. They cannot and will not be successful because of their own conduct, yet will demand those who attain such levels to feed their entitlement that they were reared in via welfare, black pagan “Christian”, entitlement because I exist, “all I know is,” don’t take personal responsibility for their actions and black male privilege, coddled, mindset.

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Decent black and broader society must remain steadfast and on guard for because the will attempt to devour members of their own community first. Just think of the 1980’s movie ‘The Blob’ and how it seeps to engulf any crevice of structure and remnants of civilized society until it destroys everyone in their path including themselves. Now that is something to ponder.

Anytime a country has to legislate basic manners and civility, it is an indication that the country becoming a third world-esque nation. Maryland is already considering street harassment laws, while it is rumored that Los Angeles, California has already passed ordinances in which street harassers will receive citations. Yet France, on a national level decided to officially tackle the pervasive issue of sexual/street harassment. At least one western nation is taking a stand. America, leader of the free world, what will you do?:

Men in France could be fined €90 for harassing women in the street Thursday 25 January 2018 12:25 GMT

Men in France could face fines of €90 (£78) for making lewd comments about women in public, under new plans to tackle street harassment.

A government report recommends enforcing the fine for behaviour that infringes on “the freedom of movement of women in public spaces and undermines self-esteem and the right to security”.

The plans come from a parliamentary working group on street harassment launched by gender equality minister Marlene Schiappa.

A longtime ally of President Emmanuel Macron, Ms Schiappa said in September that new measures were needed to address the “grey zone between consented seduction and sexual aggression”.

Men who make loud and lewd comments about women, follow them or block their path could be fined, according to measures suggested in the report.

The parliamentary group suggested imposing a €90 fine on those who pay immediately, increasing to €200 (£174) if it is paid within 15 days and €350 (£304) if the payment is later than that.

It did not recommend impose fines for wolf-whistling, according to French daily Le Croix, contrary to earlier reports.

The report is set to be presented to Ms Schiappa next week, along with France’s Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet and Minister of the Interior, Gerard Collomb. The ministers will then put a bill on sexism and sexual violence to parliament.

Mr Macron has said tacking street harassment will be a priority for his government and in November said ”women in the republic cannot be afraid to go out” .

Just something to think about: black pagan “Christian” male street harassers (as well as those of other races) will verbally abuse, accost, sexually-street harass in broad daylight and in public black women minding their own business. These same black males will, without impunity, brag about their misdeeds and criminal behavior on social media platforms such as YouTube and attempt to justify their right to violate the rights of women. Now, isn’t that something? But wait, there’s more.

YET, these same black “Christian” criminals with their flawed excuses and wicked desperation pretend to be offended and as a result will threaten and disrespect their victims who on various social media platforms expose, vent, discuss these criminals for their acts of disrespect including but not limited to: street harassment, sexual harassment, gang-stalking, accosting and verbal abuse. So where was the black male’s shame and embarrassment when you were actually street harassing these women in public and violating their constitutional rights and public safety? You commit criminal acts in public, thus you revealed who you really are—a typical criminal.

Let us ponder this: In the view of the black male sexual deviant it is somehow offensive to them and wrong for a woman to expose these criminals for what they have done in

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the PUBLIC? This is what we refer to as “ghetto black Christian” logic. It makes absolutely no sense, except to those who were not raised to be a part of or those who choose not to be a part of reasonable society.

Based on an ever-increasing body of proof that these types of black males (also dubbed ‘coons’) are the primary purveyors of Neanderthalism, misogynism and gender-based discrimination when it comes to decent, everyday, law abiding black women who try to live their lives like any other American without the offensive disruption at the hands of these sexually deviant miscreants.

Think about that for a minute.

(Note: It’s simple and repulsively erroneous and basically a fallacy: to black males ala single black “Christian” motherhood and the entitlement welfare mentality, women of color, in particular their vaginas are public property and as being a part of the general public, believe they should have access to them. As crass and descriptive as this statement is; their own actions have demonstrated such. They hate black women and find a self-indulged and sinister joy in disrespecting them every opportunity they see. Yet, at the same time, need the very women whom they stave off. These are the low-level crab in the barrel blacks who seek to destroy anyone they set their eyes on.)

For a while now several Americans (both black and white) have decried mainstream media’s attempt to designate BLM as a legitimate civil rights group. Some have attempted to prove their source of funding as part of a larger agenda to divide and conquer the populace even further, i.e., breed chaos.

Whatever the reasons, most Sunni Muslim Black Americans know that BLM and its supporters, black “Christian” Americans do not stand for the rights of all black Americans, including them. They often defend the suspected criminal behavior of black male criminals who are the products of stereotypical inner city single black mother homes with a core belief to divert, distract, use or otherwise not take personal responsibility for their actions. In furtherance of these teachings, as well the Satanic doctrine of ‘do what thou wilt,’ these particular blacks will target, harass, mock law abiding, religious or any other black American who is minding their business and do not share and even are disgusted by their views. The majority of black American “Christians” could care less about the plight of black Americans, especially those such as Sunni Muslim black Americans who do not support the other side of other black supporters of BLM. Social media has revealed that several of the founders of BLM are homosexual or transgender and have admitted that most of their base support stems from those who fall into the same categories. This group has nothing to do with protecting the rights of heterosexual, law abiding and/or highly educated and religious black Americans. These types of blacks and ‘apes in heat’ of today have nothing to do with the real Black Americans’ true legacy of dignity, decency and fighting for true justice and civil rights of the old guard.

Anyway, when the immigration controversy was at its recent apex, BLM seized the opportunity to pretend that it was in defense of migrants from Muslim majority countries. The truth had to be revealed that this group and most of its supporters despises Sunni Muslims, street/sexually harass them on the job and in public spaces and ostracized Sunni Muslim members of their family, whether immediate or extended. Even though thousands are multi-generation Sunni Muslims or converts to this particular faith of their own accord. BLM, its supporters and sympathizers would like the public to think that it is the friend of any group that the white majority is perceived to be against, yet they are worse than they. Any whites who have an objection to Sunni Muslims in general have no problem in voicing their opinions, which is better than having a group with a deep-seated hatred for Muslims to pretend not to only as a means to kill two birds with one stone: false self-righteous indignation to whites and a sly attempt to get Sunni Muslims to let their guard down to a group of people who have no good intentions towards them. They believe it is especially easy to do so at the hands of immigrant Muslims who have not experienced a lifelong interaction with them and are likely more susceptible to their connivance. I continue to share my personal experiences with black “Christian” Americans to warn people, regardless of your belief, ideology and whether you think another person is in error for having it; be warned of today’s black American “Christians” most are not sincere, have bad character, deceptive and seek to harm you either spiritually/emotionally (verbal abuse, invocation of curses, etc.) or physically (assault, street harassment, sexual harassment). This includes both genders. They have never apologized, atoned nor made amends and are not deserving of forgiveness.

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So, you are probably wondering, how can so many incidents happen in the Washington, D.C. metro area and its surrounding suburbs? Let’s take a look at the profile of a typical street harasser shall we? He or she is usually uneducated, poor, dark-skinned (inclined to aggression), made a series of poor decisions in his life, is unfortunate looking has low self-worth and thus seeks external validation from and latch himself onto a total stranger. Although there are plenty of attractive people around the world who are handsome and beautiful who happened to be dark complexioned, this is not the case for the typical black “Christian” American street harasser. Their natural ugly facial features, combined with an unclean spirt and a darkened heart is only highlighted by their dark skin. When he or she meets resistance or is not acknowledged, their true nature of unclean spirit, hostile insecurity and wicked desperation is readily manifested.

For decades, the world has witnessed countless stories of uneducated, ghetto, stereotypical blacks shooting and murdering one another. What was always absent is that 97% of the perpetrators were ghetto Black “Christian” Americans. When the casual observer moves for examining the murder rate among them and against victims who have no affiliation with them and of the same race, you can easily discern that these similar types are prone to street harassing, assaulting, insulting, accosting and molesting black American strangers (especially Sunni Muslims who are covered and are of the same race as them). With today’s black American “Christian” females one has to be even more careful, as many of them are closeted lesbians, including the ones with children, and have been exposing themselves reality television programs. They conduct themselves in odd and aggressive manners towards women who are complete strangers to them as a form of under-handed social engagement. Even black “Christian” males who are guilty of so much harm to all black women, men and children and are of their same communities refer to them as beasts and ‘beasties’ because of their savagery and natural aggression towards innocent victims. Their behavior does not reflect a rational, well-adjusted woman and its intention is to cause harm to straight women of their own race, especially if they can readily see that you are a religious woman (covered Sunni woman).

They are filled with hate, self-loathing, envy and cannot be trusted. I also noticed that these black “Christian” vagrants will nearly always defend a wrongful assailant and lambast victims in nearly all circumstances and spew non-sensical “pray for them” when referring to the CRIMINAL. Why is this? because most of their men nowadays are on the down-low and nearly all the rest are simply homosexuals who justify their conduct in Jesus’ name, they lie as a matter of course, falsely impugned the character of others for sport, they actually conjour demons in their houses of worship but try to hide it calling it praise dancing though they are humping the ground in a suggestive manner, they defend homosexuality among their men who deposit their seeds in them without marriage or other responsibility, they have taken advantage of the welfare system by agreement for as long as they are single multiple times mothers they receive benefits. It is no wonder when they witness someone who is religiously clad, at peace and mind their own business it is affront to everything they defend (anti-Christ). As this dysfunction is normalized among the underbelly of the today’s ever-devolving black American “Christian” race, it is no surprise that more stories are waiting to be told of their criminal and savage behavior:

1. One sunny day I was walking towards the Food Lion which was south of the sidewalk I was on which is in between Crain Highway and Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie (Anne Arundel County), Maryland. A dark-skinned ghetto black female was sitting on a wooden bench that would be on my right side and began to yell “hey, you, the lady with that African thing on her head!” She began to engage in some hysterical laughter which apparently was brought on by her entertaining herself by insulting random strangers who walked by. I was more abruptly shocked as I was of the same race as her, wearing my hijab in a traditional manner (draped and lower) and had an inkling of traditional African dress. I noticed that whites in the vicinity looked at her like she was crazy and being rude. It was only when she was not met with the approval of white passer-bys that she stopped. This is another indicator of ghetto black “Christians”, they ALWAYS seek a pat on their head or other social approval by whites by attacking or attempting to disgrace another Black Americans who are minding their business.

2. One year I had the opportunity to attend a conference civil rights and human rights and what countries are doing to resolve these violations. The conference had workshops, official side panels and events in which targets of xenophobia discussed their experiences and a reconvening of non-profit organizations. An Afro-Canadian woman asked whether I would join her in witnessing a video press release of this one organization that was supposed to be about the upliftment of black people in America. It became obvious that the head of the organization, a dark-skinned black “Christian” female had not followed the rules and was quite rude with a conference organizer who was a white male. They were shooting their video without prior permission, including not obtaining the proper authority to use a side office. The dark-skinned black “Christian” female had a cropped coarse haircut (like a black male’s) was enraged and became quite uncivil with the man who was just doing his job. She was belligerent and began to yell and curse at the organizer. Now, other than members of her organization, only myself, the Canadian and one other person were not a part of their group, yet we watched the entire incident unfold. Nevertheless, everyone present just stared at her for her inappropriate, disrespectful behavior with the conference organizer and really towards the entire conference (everyone who is following the schedule, rules and protocols). When she finally obtained some level of calm and notice the silence and stares from everyone this was her exact response.: “I apologize to all my “Christian” brothers and sisters…for my behavior…” She then rolled her eyes at me. So, in her eyes, the only people who took offense of her conduct was in her organization or in the alternative, anyone who was not in her group was also a target of her verbal tirade. This black female, who was supposed to be the president of a non-profit for civil rights for blacks felt that she could do whatever she wanted in another country, disrespect everyone and thought it was her prerogative and everyone else must concede to it. Her epic meltdown consisted of disrespecting me, a covered Sunni Muslim Black woman twice, because in her eyes, as well as so many of today’s black “Christians” civil rights do not pertain to all blacks just thugs, criminals, ghetto black “Christians”, black homosexual and down-low males and black transgenders. Yet, she felt herself to hold a standard of religious dogma. These are the people who falsely claim to be the garrisons of the legacy for civil rights for blacks—the very same ones who violate the civil rights of or disrespect other blacks without just cause other than their exorbitant bigotry.

3. It was an evening of Ramadan in which I was driving to a restaurant to break my fast. I was driving north on 295 (Baltimore-Washington Parkway) and had took the Anne Arundel/Casino exit for the restaurants location. Once you make your way up a small ramp-like street, the driver has the option to keep moving straight or merge further left to make a left turn. This area has five lanes, three to remain straight ahead and two left turning lanes. I turned on my left signal when a ghetto black “Christian” in an old model grey four door sedan, who had a tattered weave and knit cap was driving already in the middle lane. She began to yell at me as I waited for her to go, as she appeared to be heading straight. She refused to let me over and began calling me epithets such as “b@*#%.” I kept my signal on in order to remain calm and moved to the left lane closest to the remaining straight lanes. Apparently, she felt that unless she allows a driver to get into the lane, you have no right to. The light remained on red at Dorchester Boulevard. At this point, she was two cars behind but in the left lane closer to the median. She slammed her door after getting out and wanted to escalate a non-situation into an altercation. It was not until I picked up the phone and she knew I was calling the police that she ran back to her car, speedily drove back into the straight lanes and sped off. I concluded that she had no intention of visiting any of the shops there or even lived in the area. This black American “Christian” female was seeking to cause harm to a covered Muslim of the same race because she thought she could get away with it. Nevertheless, I did nothing wrong and she knew that there were two lanes of witnesses to her conduct.

4. One early afternoon I went shopping at the Old Navy outlet at Arundel Mills Mall located at: 7000 Arundel Mills Circle, Hanover, Maryland 21076. There was an aisle with women’s tee shirts that I was entering into and as soon as I came near, two dark-skinned black “Christians” began to snicker, followed with rolling their eyes at me. One of them said to the other, “don’t sey nuffin’ ” and continued laughing. From what I could discern, one of the gestures was a mockery of me wearing hijab (religious head covering). I simply turned towards the merchandise in an attempt to ignore them and soon thereafter they walked away from the area.

5. A very similar incident as no. 4 above occurred when I went to the Macy’s at the Mall in Columbia, Maryland (Howard County). The incidents where identical, except these two women were both obese and louder. I also had my head in wrap that appeared more ethnic than religious but I they still squawked and laughed about my headdress. This occurred in the women’s section for plus size women when I ventured to the area only looking for the rest room. Also, in this particular incident, it was a white male who observed the two black, dark-skinned “Christians” behavior who began yelling at them and embarrassing them because it was apparent that either they were lesbians and/or some form of adult bullies who attempt to veil their own insecurities by targeting others. Although the evil duo became quiet, the gentleman refused to leave the area until they left. In an ironic twist, once a again, a white man had to protect a decent woman from two ghetto, savage evil black “Christian” females.

6. One morning, I decided to visit the Howard County Columbia library, this branch located at 6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, Maryland 21045. There were several other patrons already waiting in the lobby as the librarian had not yet released the sliding iron gate at the entrance of the library. Some were returning books, others were on their cell phone. I was standing, just like everyone else and waiting. I checked the clock on the wall and noticed that we had a few more minutes before we could enter. As I was waiting, a dark-skinned either obese or pregnant black “Christian” female appeared from behind my right side and just came into my face for absolutely no reason. I had never seen her before. I did not know her from any place, and was just waiting. I looked back at her, thinking she had an odd question or the like, but she said nothing. As she stared at me, I stared back; she then made some look like most black females make when they want to fight you and want to make you flinch. I continue to say nothing and thereafter she retreated and I watched her to make sure she did not try to hit me from behind. She took some steps towards a white “Christian” woman who was probably her lover (more likely) or her handler and they hugged each other. It was a strange and dangerous moment, which made no sense even to the other people waiting in the lobby. I did notice that one white guy with a cell phone saw what was happening as he was closest to me and the gate, but he said nothing and just kept looking at his phone.

7. It was an early afternoon in Anne Arundel County in which I decided to go to the Royal Kebab located at 738 Rt.3N, Gambrills, MD 21054. It is part of a small complex of a Subway sandwich shop and gas station. Most people park at or near the gas pumps. On this occasion I did, I noticed that a dark-skinned, overweight, black male pedestrian suddenly went in front of the double doors and just stood there. He was simply staring at me while I was exiting my vehicle. He then pulled out his cell phone and pretended that he was talking with someone. He did not go into the place of business. He had no car so he wasn’t getting case and one may assume he was simply loitering like most black male ex-convicts (in Maryland, their criminal records usually include Maryland handgun violation/mandatory 5 years, CDS-controlled dangerous substance/Schedules I or Schedule II, and of course some form of assault) and vagrants do. However, he kept blocking the doors instead of going to a side wall or even inside where there is plenty of seating. I remained at the gas station pump while an Indian gas station worker wearing a green polo was already walking near me. He looked at the black male for a while as well and was making his way over. I asked him whether he would escort me (yes in broad daylight), inside. He politely agreed and as soon as the black male saw me walk towards the building with the employee he suddenly moved out of the way. After I purchased my buffet to go, I noticed the same black male was now inside, not speaking on his phone, nor buying any items—just loitering again, this time inside. It is good to remember to be observant and take offensive measures as black male “Christian” predators’ primary behavior is to lurk and loiter outside of places of business and disturb, harass or rob paying customers.

8. One very early fall morning I was commuting to Washington D.C. for work on 295-S (Baltimore Washington Parkway). It was cool enough to turn your heat on but one of those days where you had to balance your interior temperature as to not fog up your windows. I was driving in the left lane of the two-lane parkway and as usual with commuter traffic, it was at a standstill. My passenger rear window was rolled down only about an inch and a half. I heard a sinister voice in the middle of traffic yell, “hi haw ya doin’ in the middle of traffic while in my car. I turned to my right and at the window and there was a dark-skinned black male “Christian” driving a late model SUV with a disgusting smirk on his face staring at me. I hurriedly rolled my window up and returned looking straight ahead in my lane. Traffic began to pick up the pace and I drove as quickly as I could to not be near this black male’s vehicle.

9. One morning I went to the Columbia Workforce Center located at: 7161 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046. Protocol dictates that when a visitor seeks to use any of the services provided, one must sign in at the front desk. I decided to use the free computer lab to get some work done. Others may choose the option of visiting with a counselor and/or using the fax machine, copier machines or search guides provided. I was in the lab being productive, when a large dark-skinned black male “Christian” walked in and poked me harshly in my left arm. I looked at him like he was crazy because there was absolutely NO reason for a stranger to put their hands on a woman, let alone a religiously clad woman. He claimed he thought my name was something, which I knew he was lying because people who wait for a counselor sit out front in the waiting area where there is a row of seats. So, he decided to bypass all the people waiting in those seats and to disturb me. I did not have any headphones on, and it was apparent that I did not have this ‘urban’ stereotypical name. He had the audacity to be upset with me though he violated my bodily integrity for no reason at all and was trying to find a pretext to ‘talk to me.’ He was truly dark-skinned, obese and over 6′ feet tall and aggressive. He said, “oh are you so and so.” I responded with a simple “no.” I then turned away from him and back to the computer station I was seated at. Thereafter, he proceeded to semi-curse me out, saying “don’t you look like that at me, I work here.” So, he is defended his inappropriate and offensive conduct by saying that he works for the local government and therefore has the right to put his hands on people without permission and I should not be offended by it? Of course with state and federal jobs, these types of blacks whom usually populate support staff positions in this area are not disciplined. They possess ghetto black “Christian” privilege which has run rapid in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

10. One sunny late morning I ventured to the Starbucks at 13600 Baltimore Ave #308, Laurel, MD 20707 fruity black male. It is a smaller coffee house of the chain in the area and the area where customers can pick up drinks can be cramped. Some had already ordered their drinks online and were checking with the barista. Nothing initially appeared out of the ordinary. There was even a tall Caucasian Catholic priest waiting wearing his religious garb. Suddenly a dark-skinned flamboyant black male who had indicators of being a homosexual stepped into the area where most of us were. His behavior was quite noticeable as everyone, including myself had glanced at him. Apparently, he had some sort of disdain for Muslims or shame of himself or something. He came to the counter literally snatched his drink, stopped to look at me dead in my face, rolled his eyes and stomped off. It was obvious that I am a Sunni Muslim by my hijab, but what was even interesting is that he did not do anything similar to the Catholic priest, who was also in his religious attire. So, if both (he the Catholic priest and I the covered Sunni Muslim woman) have exhibited religious characteristics, why did the black male target me? It is because he knows that black women in general are not protected in American society. I also have to assume that seeing a religiously clad woman causes him to feel insecure or guilty about his lifestyle. Yet, not one person that I could tell laughed at him, mocked at him or even gave him dirty looks—but he felt the need to target his hatred and insecurity upon me. Black males who are even homosexual cannot even leave Black women alone.

There are 1 billion people on the planet and for some reason in the Washington, D.C. metro area, especially Maryland, black male “Christians” will stalk, street harass, accost and assault decent women who are total strangers who reject their advances.To the rational thinking person, it makes absolutely no sense why these black males take rejection so personally, only to solidify that they are insecure and have low-esteem despite the false over the top machismo they manufacture to perpetrate street harassment as a normal function of male genes. Normal, well-adjusted, and well-educated men do not street harass by the way.So to recap, somehow out of a billion people on the planet, dark-skinned black males choose to attempt to humiliate, disrespect and assault women who had nothing to do with them and continue to not to have anything to do with them, and only by observation verify that they made the right decision in the first place.These are the black so-called representatives of Christ of today, their logic being if you don’t let me hit on you, have my way with you or sexually assault you, I will disrespect you in the alternative by hurling verbal abuse, non-sensical defense of savage behavior aimed at women who are TOTAL STRANGERS.The reason why this is normal is because today’s ghetto black “Christians” have no moral compass.They are coddled by their single black “Christian”, democratic party voting mothers whose example is how to use the government system to their advantage and use men.Thus, their example in life is to use people, when a discerning, decent woman can by observation detect the corrupted DNA sequence that comprise these low-level black “Christian” males and the same males are met with lack of access, this is when you see the apes in heat go bizerk.They spiral into hysterical laughter, insults, “..didn’t want you anyway,” “you ain’t all that,” “f*@! you,” and all kinds of verbal drivel to divert the fact that they never had a chance and must now soothe the initially fragile ego. It is utterly fascinating and disturbing at the same time how these dark-skinned black “Christian” males attempt to defend their conduct, all the while the reasonable intelligent woman knows that they street harass because they assume 1) that you are easily accessible (quite satanic that they believe a covered, religious person actually is), 2) the woman that they are targeting is either unintelligent or vulnerable.There is NO way a good, well-mannered, discerning woman could accept this as normal or flattering behavior. Remember there are 1 billion people on the planet and some sadistic black male strangers see fit to stalk, harass, disrespect and humiliate a woman who by proper discernment seeks no interaction with these vagrants. Yet, out of all the millions of people in the country, these black male vagabonds short-circuit and set forth plots to destroy these women who are total strangers. You cannot tell me that course of behavior is not simply pure evil.

Just to be clear, these are the same types of black males who claim to be part of or support Black Lives Matter, which obviously does not apply to other blacks and focuses on the liberalization of criminal activity and ignores criminal conduct of ghetto blacks upon innocent Black Americans.Then again, it makes sense they are supporters of such a movement, black women are not any type of beneficiary of it.So now we venture into why black male street harassers are devils.

One of the non-theological definition of devil is:‘anatrociouslywicked,cruel,orill-temperedperson.’ Another definition is ‘mischievous,’ this aptly describes black male street harassers.Street harassers are troublemakers because they initiate conflict and originate situations of distress where none previously existed.Trouble is a synonym for mischief, thus by any rational thinking person street harassers are mischief-makers, better known as devils.So, why would a black “Christian” devil (oxymoron, but hey it’s logical to them) believe that they have the right to street harass a religious person? A covered Sunni Muslim black American woman?It is easy, let us take a look at opposites, good v. bad, wicked v. righteous, devil (deceiver, peacemaker, someone who causes distress) v. someone at peace or minding their business or who would not even consider such a disrespectful beggar as worthy of their time.Ill-tempered? Check. Please refer to this post:

I ran across an academic paper published in a Cornell University academic journal by a professor in 1993. In it she discusses how the male-dominated field of law actually influences the lack of specific street harassment laws geared to protect women and thus contributes to gender-based discrimination.

Of course since then, several states have enacted sexual harassment laws which supplement the older general harassment statutes in various American states. Several already have sexual misconduct, sexual offenses and harassment statutes that street harassing behavior would fall under as violation of the law. So why is it still, in 2017 so rampant, why does law enforcement do not enforce these laws consistently? It is the same issue that women have dealt with several years ago and still do: despite the United States claiming to be a modern democracy, women, especially those of color are still treated as second class citizens. Even where in law enforcement whether police officers or judges that have a greater population of female filled positions, sexual harassment offenses are not properly adjudicated. There are political factors to consider: women in law enforcement who want to fit in with the “boys” and thus view all citizens as suspect and untrustworthy–thus if a female police officer actually lead the helm in street harassment prevention and law enforcement she may appear bias or weak. This rings true for female judges nd many of us have witnessed news reports regarding sexual assault in various branches of the military and how there is usually a cover up by male superior officers. It was only in the 1940s-1960s where many states repealed laws permitted the legal rape of their wives because women were considered property of the man. Yet, this nation boasts of how modern it is in its treatment of women when it is no different than most nations it claims to lead in civil and human rights. Technological advancement is not a substitute for the inhumane treatment and degradation of women.

The one thing I do disagree with is the use of the term feminist in defending a basic human rights. Doing so, separates women as either less than or more than by claiming the rights to be special to women which is the antithesis of ‘equal rights.’ Women are human and the ability for freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, free to not have random strangers (whether male or female) put their hands on you, sexually assault or sexually harass you is a basic right of any man, woman and child. To make street harassment solely about male perpetrators does a disservice. There are closeted lesbians, child molesters, and overt homosexuals who will street harass and sexually assault members of the same gender and those victims deserves just as much protection under the law and freedom from street harassment as anyone else. This is purely my perspective on the issue. However, I do understand that most street harassment is against women and girls in general in the United States and most street harassers are black male “Christians”, whether in urban or suburban areas.

Anyway, I wanted to post the short academic paper from long ago to demonstrate how American society haven’t matured much and that its women are still under siege in this ‘modern democracy.’ http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/142/

For those of you who do not links or being transferred to another webpage, I have provided the text of the article embedded below:

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ARTICLE: STREET HARASSMENT AND THE INFORMAL GHETTOIZATION OF WOMEN.

NAME: Cynthia Grant Bowman *

BIO:

* Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law. For their helpful comments on early drafts of this Article, I thank Mary Becker, Locke Bowman, Bernardine Dohrn, Leonard Rubinowitz, Morrison Torrey, and the members of the Chicago Feminist Law Teachers Colloquium. I am grateful also for the research assistance of Genevieve Daniels, Victoria Hinson, Sara Love, and Lyn Schollett. This Article is dedicated to the memory of my colleague Jim Haddad, a gentle man and good friend.

LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY:
… Until relatively recently, for example, no term even existed to describe what is now universally called “sexual harassment,” although the phenomenon itself was well known to women. … This Article examines another type of sexual harassment that profoundly affects women’s lives: the harassment of women in public places by men who are strangers to them, which I call “street harassment.” … Although street harassment encompasses a wide variety of behaviors, gestures, and comments, it has some defining characteristics: (1) the targets of street harassment are female; (2) the harassers are male; (3) the harassers are unacquainted with their targets; (4) the encounter is face to face; (5) the forum is a public one, such as a street, sidewalk, bus, bus station, taxi, or other place to which the public generally has access; but (6) the content of the speech, if any, is not intended as public discourse. … If as many as one out of three American women has been subjected to rape or an attempted sexual assault, the target of street harassment may well be a woman who carries this traumatic history within her. … Assault is an appropriate claim in such cases, and targets of street harassment should pursue claims with the aim of establishing a reasonable woman standard by which to measure the impact of the harasser’s conduct. …

HIGHLIGHT: The law often overlooks harms to women. One such harm is the harassment that women face when they travel along city streets and appear in other public places. This street harassment can have profound effects on women’s full participation in the public sphere. In this Article, Professor Bowman calls attention to these harms and proposes potential legal remedies for the harassment of women on the public streets. She begins by describing what street harassment involves and whom it affects and then discusses the legally cognizable harms to women and society. Next, she evaluates the criminal and civil laws that might be used to target harassment and describes their failings. Finally, she proposes new methods to stop street harassment and open the public sphere to women. Although Professor Bowman admits that her solutions are not foolproof (and may face severe constitutional attacks), she emphasizes that for the law to recognize the substantial burdens that street harassment places on women’s liberty, equality, and sense of self-dignity is a first step toward a solution.
A woman walks down a city street. A man whom she does not know makes an obscene noise or gesture. She counters with a retort or ignores him and walks on.
This is a common enough sequence of events. It happens every day of the year. . . . Superficially, this is a simple, ordinary encounter. . . .
But beneath the surface is a complexity of feeling, thought, and intention that, despite two decades of feminist theorizing and two millennia of women writing about women, we have just begun to decode. Hidden in this complexity are the personal and political contradictions of women’s lives, making the experience of street hassling the quintessential moment of femininity in our culture.
MURIEL DIMEN, SURVIVING SEXUAL CONTRADICTIONS n1

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[*518] A recurrent theme of feminist jurisprudence is that the law fails to take seriously events which affect women’s lives. The law trivializes or simply ignores events that have a profound effect upon women’s consciousness, physical well-being, and freedom. Until relatively recently, for example, no term even existed to describe what is now universally called “sexual harassment,” although the phenomenon itself was well known to women. n2 Yet, within the brief period since the naming and describing of this phenomenon, the concept has entered the law as a form of sex discrimination forbidden under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. n3 The development of this legal concept and its embodiment in theories of liability has significantly affected popular understanding of acceptable modes of interaction in the workplace. n4 Thus, as Catharine MacKinnon has described, “the legal concept of sexual harassment reenters the society to participate [*519] in shaping the social definitions of what may be resisted or complained about, said aloud, or even felt.” n5
This Article examines another type of sexual harassment that profoundly affects women’s lives: the harassment of women in public places by men who are strangers to them, n6 which I call “street harassment.” n7 Street harassment is a phenomenon that has not generally been viewed by academics, judges, or legislators as a problem requiring legal redress, either because these mostly male observers have not noticed the behavior n8 or because they have considered it trivial and thus not within the proper scope of the law. n9 In Part I, therefore, I describe the very real harms of this widespread social phenomenon. I focus upon its effects and show how women experience street harassment — how being subjected to this intrusion feels from a woman’s point of view — and the consequences it has on our lives. n10 In [*520] Part II, I recast these harms into categories recognized by the law. In Part III, I examine a variety of concepts that current law might use to combat conduct of this sort, including assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and the tort of intrusion, as well as the many statutes already on the books that prohibit intimidation or harassment and the use of abusive language on the streets. I then show how these legal categories, as they have been interpreted so far, have not in fact addressed the harms of street harassment.
From a feminist perspective, it is not surprising that existing legal concepts, fashioned primarily by male judges and legislators in light of the experiences encountered by men, fail to provide effective remedies for the peculiarly female-directed experience of street harassment. Nonetheless, this failure fundamentally contradicts the values underlying Anglo-American law, for the legal remedies available to women in this context are inadequate to secure even the most primary goods of a liberal democratic society. “[L]iberty,” as John Locke observed, “is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be where there is no law. . . .” n11 The liberty of women, in this most fundamental sense of freedom from restraint, is substantially limited by street harassment, which reduces their physical and geographical mobility and often prevents them from appearing alone in public places. n12 In this sense, street harassment accomplishes an informal ghettoization of women — a ghettoization to the private sphere of hearth and home.
The most fundamental definitions of liberty include the right of an individual to go where she chooses in spaces that are public. n13 Indeed, liberty of this sort is essential to equal participation in the affairs of the polis. n14 The security to move about in public, what Blackstone [*521] called “the power of locomotion,” n15 is one of the most basic civil rights; it is essential to the rights to assemble and petition for redress of grievances — the primary prerequisites to participation in public affairs and admission to the public realm. n16 Thus, when the law fails to protect women from street harassment, it deprives them of one of the basic goods for which government was ordained, leaving them in an Hobbesian wilderness men do not share. n17
In order to participate as equal citizens in the polis, women must reclaim the public space. Hence, my inquiry does not end simply with an analysis of the law’s current inadequacy in addressing the harms of street harassment. We must either fashion new legal concepts equal to this task or reformulate existing legal categories to make them apply to the experience of street harassment. This is one of the goals of what Robin West has called “reconstructive feminist jurisprudence”: to “reconstruct the reforms necessary to the safety and improvement of women’s lives in direct language that is true to our own experience [*522] and our own subjective lives.” n18 Therefore, in Part IV of this Article I propose a variety of ways in which we can use or reform the law to address street harassment. However, these potential legal remedies will only enter the law if women — as plaintiffs and as lawyers — determine collectively to adopt them.
I. STREET HARASSMENT: WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FROM A FEMINIST PROSPECTIVE
The literature of law and social science is largely silent about the harassment of women in public places. The legal academy has not viewed street harassment as an issue worthy of attention, despite Robin West’s repeated depiction of it as a disempowering injury to women that is virtually unrecognized by the law:
[W]omen suffer unpunished and uncompensated sexual assaults continually. Women who live in urban areas and walk rather than drive or take taxis endure tortious or criminal sexual assaults daily. Although we have a trivializing phrase for these encounters — “street hassling” — these assaults are not at all trivial. They are frightening and threatening whispered messages of power and subjection. They are, in short, assaults. Yet, men who harass women on the street are not apprehended, they are not punished, the victims are not compensated, and no damages are paid. The entire transaction is entirely invisible to the state. n19

With the exception of one sociological discussion written in English n20 and one survey by two Austrian sociologists, n21 the study of street harassment has been carried out by a handful of scholars in the fields of speech, language, and communication. n22 In the face of this relative silence, any student of street harassment must supplement the academic literature with sources less typical of legal scholarship — popular magazines directed at female audiences, literature, movies, plays, and letters to the editor in large city newspapers — in which women [*523] have related their experiences with street harassment. n23 From these studies and stories, it is possible to construct an account of the harms of street harassment by describing the impact it has on its individual targets n24 and to assess the impact of street harassment upon women as a group, upon relations between the sexes, and upon society as a whole.
A. Toward a Working Definition of Street Harassment
A wide variety of behavior is included within the conduct generally considered by targets, survey respondents, and commentators to constitute street harassment. n25 It includes both verbal and nonverbal behavior, such as “wolf-whistles, leers, winks, grabs, pinches, catcalls and street remarks”; the remarks are frequently sexual in nature and comment evaluatively on a woman’s physical appearance or on her presence in public. n26 The comments range from “Hello, baby” to vulgar suggestions and outright threats, n27 such as “fucking bitch, fucking cunt,” n28 “[w]hite whore,” n29 or “you’re just a piece of meat to me, bitch.” n30 Although street harassment encompasses a wide variety of behaviors, gestures, and comments, it has some defining characteristics: (1) the targets of street harassment are female; n31 (2) the harassers are male; (3) the harassers are unacquainted with their targets; (4) the encounter is face to face; (5) the forum is a public one, such as a [*524] street, sidewalk, bus, bus station, taxi, or other place to which the public generally has access; n32 but (6) the content of the speech, if any, is not intended as public discourse. n33 Rather, the remarks are aimed at the individual (although the harasser may intend that they be overheard by comrades or passers-by), n34 and they are objectively degrading, objectifying, humiliating, and frequently threatening in nature.
Anthropologist Micaela di Leonardo has offered the best working definition of street harassment:
Street harassment occurs when one or more strange men accost one or more women . . . in a public place which is not the woman’s/women’s worksite. Through looks, words, or gestures the man asserts his right to intrude on the woman’s attention, defining her as a sexual object, and forcing her to interact with him. n35

Although I will attempt to improve upon this definition by making it more specific and in some ways narrower when I define street harassment as a legal term, n36 di Leonardo’s definition is excellent for its descriptive value. It offers an objective rather than subjective standard by which to define street harassment; it focusses upon the harasser’s actions rather than upon his intentions or perceptions; and it captures the experience of street harassment as intrusion.
One must turn to first-person accounts and to literature to get a sense of the experience of street harassment. The following description appeared in Mademoiselle magazine in 1984. It recounts the experiences of a woman who had been inclined as a girl to regard remarks from strange men or boys on the streets as complimentary:
[*525] The shift in [my] thinking started when I moved to Manhattan and discovered that the relatively innocuous “Hey, good-looking” of my suburban girlhood was the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, men simply approached me with crude propositions. The first time a man walked toward me, opened his mouth, began panting and jerked his crotch, I didn’t feel the least bit affirmed or desirable. I did feel embarrassed, humiliated, furious — and helpless. . . . It made me feel vulnerable and defenseless, as if I didn’t really have control over my own flesh. n37

Another woman reported the following interchange, which occurred when she was out walking, absorbed in serious thought, and passed two men on the sidewalk:
“Hey, why so serious, honey? Give us a little smile.” My sense of humor, he didn’t know, was temporarily out of service, so of course I didn’t give him a little smile. But in not smiling, I had again violated the code, provoking another seizure of silent suffering that became verbal. As I passed the sleeve on the street, it hissed a word at me, with the edge of anger to it, with a sharp rebuke in it: “Bitch.” n38

This account describes a common pattern, in which the target’s failure to response results in escalation and a superficially friendly interaction is transformed into one that is transparently hostile. n39
Finally, an example from a novel by Joyce Carol Oates:
False facts.
The detour around the construction, the mud, the planks, Elena walking carefully on one of the planks, and one of the men yelling at her. Cupping his hands to his mouth, yelling. Another man laughing. Another man laughing. Another man, stocky in his workclothes, throwing something at her that hadn’t enough weight to carry itself to her — just a crumpled-up paper bag, a lunch bag.
False facts: they didn’t really want to hurt her.
Didn’t hate her.
Didn’t want her dead.
False facts: the recitation of the weather around the country, the temperature recorded at all the airports. You believe it must mean something but it will not.
False facts: blood on instruments, no proof of pain. Proof only of blood. n40

[*526] One cannot help but note the thinly concealed violence underlying each of these encounters.
The interactions described above also reflect major deviations from what sociologists refer to as the norm of civil inattention among strangers in public places. n41 Typically, unacquainted persons passing on a public street, particularly in large cities, do not address one another, but instead perform an avoidance ritual: they make eye contact briefly from a distance of eight to ten feet, then avert their eyes and raise them again with a mid-distance focus on a point to the side of the passerby. n42 Staring at a stranger is a well-established cultural taboo. Indeed, Erving Goffman noted, “‘[t]he act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow — one only stares.'” n43
Breaches of civil inattention that include a spoken component typically occur only when one encounters a person who is either very unusual (such as an individual carrying a couch, hopping on one foot, or dressed in costume) or unusually similar to oneself in some respect (for example, someone wearing the same college sweatshirt or driving the same make of car), or who is accompanied by someone or something in an “open” category, such as dogs or children. n44 Men seem to regard women generally as such “open persons.” Unlike men, women passing through public areas are subject to “markers of passage” that imply either that women are acting out of role simply by their presence in public or that a part of their role is in fact to be open to the public. n45 These “markers” emphasize that women, unlike men, belong in the private sphere, the sphere of domestic rather than public responsibility. n46 Ironically, men convey this message by intruding upon a woman’s privacy as she enters the public sphere.
Central to the freedom to be at ease in public spaces is the capacity to pass through them while retaining a certain zone of privacy and autonomy — a zone of interpersonal distance that is crossed only by mutual consent. If, by contrast, women are subject to violation of [*527] that zone of personal privacy when they enter public areas, that very invasion of privacy effectively drives women back into the private sphere, where they may avoid such violations. Thus, by turning women into objects of public attention when they are in public, harassers drive home the message that women belong only in the world of the private.
B. Is Street Harassment a New Phenomenon?
Rare but occasional mention in the case law demonstrates that the harassment of women in public places predates the modern period. n47 One particularly graphic account appears in the report of an 1875 suit for damages brought by a twenty-year-old schoolteacher against the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad for the unseemly behavior of its conductor:
The conductor then came and sat down near the plaintiff. . . . “He said, ‘I suppose you are married like all the rest of the school marms?’ I said, ‘No, I am not.’ Then he sat up nearer to me, and put his hand in my muff, and said, ‘There is room for two hands in this muff, aint there?’ I said, ‘No, sir, there is not for yours,’ and jerked my muff away. . . . I had the tassel of my muff in my hand, tossing it, and he said, ‘If you don’t stop twisting that, you will wear it all out.’ I said, ‘I don’t care if I do.’ He then said, ‘What makes you look so cross?’ I didn’t answer him, but turned away from him. Pretty soon he got up, and I supposed he was going away. He stepped to the side of my chair, threw his arms around me, and held my arms down. He threw his left arm around my shoulder, and took hold of my arm between the shoulder and left elbow with his right arm; he pressed his elbow on my right arm, and then commenced kissing me. I said, ‘Oh, let me go; you will kill me.’ He said, ‘I am not agoing to hurt you.’ Then I said, ‘Do let me go; I will jump out of the car, if you will.’ I tried to get up on my feet, and he pushed me back in the chair, and said, ‘I aint agoing to hurt you.’ Then I said, ‘What have I ever done to you, that you should treat me in this way?’ After [*528] he had kissed me five or six times, he said, ‘Look me in the eye, and tell me if you are mad.’ I said, ‘Yes, I am mad.'” n48

Many women reading this account in the 1990s would likely react to it with an empathetic identification drawn from similar experiences of sexual harassment. Although this encounter resulted in an outright assault — indeed, a battery — the imposition of unwanted attention of a type leading to assault is familiar to female passengers on buses and subway trains today. n49 For this reason, the story sounds remarkably modern.
With the advent of the “Second Wave” of the women’s movement in the 1970s and 1980s, personal accounts of street harassment began to appear in popular journals with some frequency. Harassment may also have become more offensive and frequent in these two decades. n50 The increase in harassment seems attributable, at least in part, to the many changes in women’s lives during this period, including their entry into the workforce in record numbers, the rise both in the age of first marriage and in the divorce rate, the delay of childbirth on the part of working women, public acceptance of unchaperoned women; and the outdoor nature of the physical fitness movement. n51 All of these changes increased the likelihood that women would be present in public areas and would be there unaccompanied by children or male escorts. n52 Periods of recession and unemployment also seem to be associated with increases in the incidence of street harassment — by literally placing men on the streets in many neighborhoods. In the opinion of some, a more general deterioration in public civility has also exacerbated the problem. n53 Thus, what may well be an age-old institution has become a particularly virulent and widespread practice in modern American cities.
[*529] C. The Geography of Street Harassment
Street harassment is a common occurrence in large urban areas. News articles and commentators report that street harassment is particularly frequent, intense, and sexually explicit in Washington, D.C. n54 Street harassment occurs both in the South of the United States and in the North. Florence King described her encounter with some “Good Ole Boys,” whom she described as a “Southern Wasp phenomenon” with a facility for double entendre:
Benches always draw the Good Ole Boys; any long seating arrangement in the South is bound to be full of them. Courthouse railings are their favorite hangout but a row of anything will do.
As I walked past them [in a bus station waiting room] it began.
“Shore would like to have that swing in my backyard.”
“You want me to help you with your box, li’l lady?”
“Hesh up, Alvin, that ain’t nice. Don’t you talk to her like that.”
“I just want to help her with her box, thass all.” n55
Indeed, street harassment is a worldwide phenomenon, n56 apparently absent only in small villages and under fundamentalist regimes in which women are literally veiled and seldom seen in public. n57 One graduate student from India told me, for example, that, in the more than one year during which she worked as a lawyer in New Delhi, she was harassed at least once every day; she attributed this harassment to the fact that she was wearing Western clothes and engaging in non-traditional pursuits. Newspaper reports support her account of the pervasiveness of this conduct, which is called “Eve teasing” in India. n58
Within American cities, harassment is more common in certain places than others. Construction sites are perennial problems, and [*530] the presence of street pornography in an area seems to increase the likelihood of hassling, perhaps by symbolically condoning sexist attitudes and behavior. n59 Some women report that they are spared stares and comments when they are in public places traditionally associated with the home, such as department stores, grocery stores, and churches; n60 but others write of unpleasant encounters in these places as well. n61 In addition, both personal and shared experiences reveal that men in trucks often harass women in cars. The 1991 movie Thelma and Louise graphically depicted this particular form of harassment. (The movie’s two female protagonists ultimately confront their harasser and blow up his truck, usually to the cheers of the audience.) n62 Case law and recent news articles show that taxicabs are also a common venue for harassment. n63
Benard and Schlaffer’s empirical study indicates that there are some places, such as small villages, in which street harassment does not occur. This discovery led the authors to conclude that harassment is confined to the “genuinely public world,” where people are strangers to one another. n64 Apparently if someone exists for you as an individual, [*531] you are less likely to harass her — a fact reflected in the proto-typical question used to confront harassers: “Would you want someone to treat your sister (or wife, or mother) this way?” n65
D. Harassers and Their Targets: Who Are They?
As should be clear from these accounts, the men who harass women in the street are not just construction workers; they include bus and taxi drivers, train conductors, males congregated on the streets, “Good Ole Boys,” and passers-by. The activity crosses lines of geography, religion, race, age, and class. As one observer has suggested, the only reason street harassment superficially appears to be an institution of working-class men is that their place of business is more often the street. n66 Benard and Schlaffer, who personally tested their hypotheses by acting as “testers” on the streets, reported that age, education, and income bore little relation to harassing behavior (although younger men tended to be more aggressive, and older men tended to lower their voices). n67
The target of street harassment is literally every woman between the age when her body begins to develop sexually and that undefined point when she is no longer assumed to be a sexual being because she is “too old.” Different women may experience street harassment in different ways, though. For a very young girl, it is one of her first lessons in what it means to be a sexual being — a confusing and shame-producing experience. According to Robin West:
Street hassling is also the earliest — and therefore the defining — lesson in the source of a girl’s disempowerment. If they haven’t learned it anywhere else, street hassling teaches girls that their sexuality implies their vulnerability. It is damaging to be pointed at, jeered at, and laughed at for one’s sexuality, and it is infantilizing to know you have to take it. n68

Lesbians are subjected to a uniquely offensive experience, as they are both “punished” for being women and assumed to be what they are [*532] not — heterosexual. On the other hand, if it is obvious that they are lesbian, men harass them for that status as well. n69
The experience of street harassment may also differ with the race, class, or ethnicity of the targeted woman and the history of gender interactions to which she has become accustomed. Although it would be impossible adequately to describe all of these disparate reactions, it is useful to note some differences between the harassment experience of African-American women and of European-American women. In many African-American communities, men and women engage in sexually oriented banter in public; several writers have pointed to similarities between street harassment and these forms of repartee. n70 Others conclude that African-American women are therefore not harmed by street remarks. n71 Yet, although “rapping” may resemble some forms of street harassment in some respects, this custom is also distinguishable from street harassment, because women are not ratified speakers in the typical harassment context, but are merely intended overhearers. n72 Furthermore, badinage, or humorous banter, is a mutually agreed-upon interaction, whereas street harassment takes place and persists even when the woman actively avoids interaction. n73 Finally, it should be noted that, although many African-American women respond assertively to rapping, they typically do not initiate it. Thus, even in this context, speech rights are asymmetrical. n74
Although African-American women may be familiar with forms of interaction similar to street harassment and thus may experience harassment as something akin to a familiar gender interaction, it does not necessarily follow that they like it. I have not located any accounts in which Black women stated that they enjoyed street harassment. Rather, it is clear from newspaper stories that African-American women suffer great pain from street harassment and that in many large cities such harassment can be both more frequent and more intense for them than for other women. n75 One African-American [*533] woman described the difference between the interactions to which she was accustomed and those that she encountered upon moving to Washington from the South:
I come from . . . the South. Where I’m from, black men and women address each other on the street. Those who don’t are considered rude, ill-bred and hateful of black tradition. So I once had no qualms about speaking to men on the street.
But in the past few months of living in Washington, I have lost the ability to discriminate between men who are being friendly and those who wish to do me harm. Now I view all gestures from men on the street as potential threats. All the car honks and “hey-baby” comments that I once considered just annoying are now ominous and alarming. n76

In short, despite familiarity with forms of interaction superficially similar to street harassment, African-American women are also offended by it.
Moreover, Black women are harassed by both white and Black men — experiences that evoke different historical associations. Historically, African-American women have been subjected to particularly virulent and degrading forms of harassment by white men. They were treated as the sexual property of their masters during slavery, and this attitude survived emancipation. n77 A typical modern interchange is described in a scene in Lorraine Hansberry’s To Be Young, Gifted and Black:
In these streets out there, any little white boy from Long Island or Westchester sees me and leans out of his car and yells — “Hey there, hot chocolate! Say there, Jezebel! Hey you — ‘Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding’! YOU! Bet you know where there’s a good time tonight. . . .” n78

bell hooks has accurately explained this exchange as premised upon the assumption that all Black women, regardless of their class, are prostitutes and are available as sex objects. n79 Thus, when African-American [*534] women are harassed on the street, the experience evokes a long history of disrespect, degradation, and inhumane sexual mistreatment to which Black women have been subjected over the years. One woman has tried to convey this message to African-American men who engage in street harassment:
I would like to address a special concern to those black men who are making the District a living hell for their sisters.
. . . Your lewd invitations and crude commands may seem funny to you, but the truth is that nothing comes closer to the slave-era mentality of white men toward black women.
Young black men yell at women who are mothers, “Come here, girl!” They whistle at women as if calling dogs. Even black children are not immune. I heard a grown man tell a 12-year-old, “I’ll be back when you get a little older, baby.” n80

Hence, despite familiarity with sexual repartee on the streets, Black women may in fact suffer more intensely from street harassment than other women, because it resonates with remnants of a slave-era mentality.
In sum, although women from different backgrounds may experience street harassment through the lens of different historical and personal experiences, at base it remains an unwelcome and painful event for us all. n81 In this sense, it is also a universalizing experience — one that virtually all women share. Indeed, its near-universality denotes the extent to which such harassment is simply accepted as normal and thus becomes invisible as a social problem. This invisibility may in turn account for the relative silence about street harassment in any form of legal literature.
II. WHAT ARE THE LEGALLY COGNIZABLE HARMS OF STREET HARASSMENT?
Although street harassment affects women’s psychological well-being and conduct, in the cold light of the law the question is whether this impact rises above the ordinary annoyances that citizens must [*535] endure as the price of living in society. n82 To answer this question, one must return to the accounts that women have given of their individual and collective experiences as targets on the street. These accounts demonstrate that street harassment not only has a significant impact upon the lives of women as individuals, but also has significant consequences for society as a whole.
A. The Impact of Street Harassment upon Women
Street harassment evokes from its targets emotional responses that range from moderate annoyance to intense fear. Two themes repeatedly appear in women’s responses to inquiries about the experience of harassment: the intrusion upon privacy and the fear of rape. For example, eight of the ten women interviewed by Carol Brooks Gardner referred to street harassment as an invasion of privacy, and an equal number mentioned similarities to rape. n83 Many women apparently view the issue as one of privacy and offer remarks such as: “‘Women have traditionally been considered weak and vulnerable, thus it is safe to intrude on their privacy. The reason I hate to be whistled at is I feel like that person is forcing his way into my space, whether I like it or not.'” n84 Other women point to women’s constant fear of rape and remark that there is no way of knowing which stranger will in fact turn out to be a rapist. n85 Thus, each time a strange man addresses a woman on the street, she must entertain the possibility that he might rape her.
Women have good reason to believe that street harassment can serve as a precursor to rape. Although most encounters may turn out [*536] to be innocuous, this fear is not unrealistic, given that as many as one in three women in our society have been victims of rape or attempted rape at some time in their lives. n86 Furthermore, rapists often harass women on the street and violate their personal space in order to determine which women are likely to be easy targets — a practice called “rape-testing.” n87 Because potential rapists frequently select their victims by looking for women who appear vulnerable to assault, they may approach a potential victim and “test” her by a variety of means, including making lewd or insinuating remarks, to see if she can be intimidated. n88 If the target reacts in a passive fashion to the harassment, the rapist may assume that she will probably not fight back, and he is more likely to rape her. n89 Thus, the connection between rape and harassment is not just in the mind of the woman.
Women who have been victims of rape are especially vulnerable to the harms that street harassment inflicts. If as many as one out of three American women has been subjected to rape or an attempted sexual assault, the target of street harassment may well be a woman who carries this traumatic history within her. Thus she may be both especially fearful and especially traumatized by an encounter on the streets. n90 Although a harasser generally cannot ascertain whether a particular target has been raped, the statistics on rape make this possibility of heightened injury foreseeable. Even if a target who has previously been raped reacts with fear or panic out of proportion to the nature of the remark addressed to her, hers is an “eggshell” shared [*537] by millions of women. n91 However, even if the injury were not so foreseeable, the harasser would still be liable. n92
Although women are deeply harmed by the fear street harassment arouses, their immediate reactions to it are often counterproductive. Women who are harassed on the street typically do not respond to the harasser but instead try to ignore him, or, more accurately, pretend to ignore him. Women may react this way because they are unwilling to admit their powerlessness in the situation, n93 are afraid of physical attack, n94 or are reluctant to draw attention to themselves or to be displeasing. n95 In other circumstances, they are simply annoyed and do not want to reward the harasser with a response, or they are embarrassed to have been treated in such a degrading manner. They freeze; they put on a blank face; they try to pretend that nothing is happening. n96 When women take these evasive actions in an effort to mask feelings of invasion, anger, humiliation, and fear, they suffer a psychological beating in the form of emotional distress and feelings of disempowerment. n97 By contrast, one study of rape victims revealed that women who resisted rape, even when they failed to prevent it, were less likely to feel depressed after the assault than those who did not resist; the women who resisted even experienced a degree of psychic liberation. n98 Thus, nonresponse to street harassment may impose its own costs.
Harassment also takes a toll on women’s self-esteem. Street harassment reduces women to sexual objects. The comments and conduct of a harasser then force this perception upon his target. One woman explained:
[*538] While it is true that for these men I am nothing but, let us say, “a nice piece of ass,” there is more involved in this encounter than their mere fragmented perception of me. They could, after all, have enjoyed me in silence. . . . But I must be made to know that I am “a nice piece of ass”; I must be made to see myself as they see me. n99

One author describes the reaction of women to being forced to perceive themselves as objects as a form of “madness”:
Being the Subject-as-Object is maddening. It is to be both Self and Other, and to be torn between them. In such a divided state of mind, one’s perceptions of others, of one’s relations to them, and of oneself become untrustworthy. This chaotic moment can seem like madness, to which one responds with a desperate struggle to understand and explain. When, then, a woman turns into the Subject-as-Object, as in street hassling, she can feel as though she were losing her mind. n100

Although “madness” might seem an extreme description, studies of sexual harassment in the workplace show that its victims suffer severe emotional distress, often accompanied by depression, anxiety, stress, loss of motivation, and guilt, as well as disgust, hurt, and anger. n101 Likewise, according to psychologists, women subjected to public insults on the street suffer a psychological toll from “‘feel[ing] degraded, embarrassed, angry and helpless.'” n102 Harassment may also teach women to be ashamed of their bodies and to associate their bodies with fear and humiliation. Not only does this result harm a woman’s self-esteem, but it may also interfere with her ability to be comfortable with her sexuality. n103
[*539] Finally, street harassment severely restricts the physical and geographical mobility of women. It not only diminishes a woman’s feelings of safety and comfort in public places, but also restricts her freedom of movement, depriving her of liberty and security in the public sphere. n104 Women avoid certain places, sites, or activities (biking and jogging are common examples) for years in order to escape harassment. n105 Students in Washington, D.C., take detours or beg rides in order to avoid being hassled. n106 Thus, harassment makes the urban environment uncomfortable, hostile, and frightening for women. n107 In this way, street harassment restricts women’s mobility in a way that substantially offsets the gains women have made in other spheres:
In an era when women are indeed exercising hard-won options in areas such as employment, childbearing, and politics, they often seem to be limited in simpler choices — whether to go to the movies alone, where to walk or jog, whether to answer the door or telephone. Can we measure the success of a social movement for equality if we do not include an assessment of the quality of life of the affected groups? . . . Without such freedom it is impossible to implement other choices. n108
Fears of rape as well as of harassment itself underlie these restrictions upon women’s mobility. It is usually difficult, however, to disentangle the effects of street harassment from the effects of fear of sexual assault. Harassment in dangerous areas, such as “dark alleys,” [*540] in fact arouses realistic fears of rape. Furthermore, all harassment takes place in a social context in which women are always conscious of the threat of rape. Consequently, any incident of harassment, no matter how “harmless,” both evokes and reinforces women’s legitimate fear of rape. n109 It does so by reminding women that they are vulnerable to attack and by demonstrating that any man may choose to invade a woman’s personal space, physically or psychologically, if he feels like it. n110 Thus, street harassment forms part of a whole spectrum of means by which men objectify women and assert coercive power over them, one which is even more invidious because it is so pervasive and appears, deceptively, to be trivial.
B. The Consequences of Street Harassment for Women, Gender, and Society
The fear, psychological trauma, and restrictions on personal liberty described above have obvious consequences for women as individuals. Not so obvious, perhaps, are the consequences suffered by society as a whole. In fact, the harms of street harassment extend to its impact upon the relationship between the sexes, upon the construction of gender in our society, and upon social and political relationships in general.
First, street harassment both increases women’s dependence on men and contributes to distrust and hostility between the sexes. For example, street harassment, and the related danger of sexual assault, encourage women to seek male escorts in public — men to protect them from harassment by other men — what Susan Griffin has referred to as the male “protection racket.” n111 Moreover, it is difficult for a man, however well-intentioned, to address an unfamiliar woman on the street without evoking some suspicion or fear in her, unless he goes to some lengths to assure her that he — unlike other unfamiliar males — is indeed trustworthy. n112 Thus, the possibility of harassment [*541] complicates casual communication and impedes solidarity among unacquainted men and women. n113
Second, contrary to the folk wisdom that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” language is instrumental in the construction of reality; language locates individuals within that reality and thus constructs their gender identities. n114 Women learn to associate their bodies with shame, fear, and humiliation. n115 Women also learn their place in society from language, and they learn that this place is not a public one. The remarks women hear from harassers on the street carry the implicit (and sometimes explicit) message that women do not belong in public, where they draw attention by their mere appearance, but rather in the private sphere, at home. As one woman who experienced street harassment explained:
Home was still the only place women didn’t need an excuse to be. . . . It [the street] was their [men’s] turf, the place where they belonged. Perhaps they hadn’t actually pissed at all the crosswalks like territorial tomcats, but then they didn’t have to. After all, who was going to challenge their domain? n116
Indeed, many analysts conclude that the intent of street harassers is, in fact, to remind women of their gender identity and their place in society. n117 Although it is dangerous to reason from effects to intentions, this hypothesis has explanatory power. In primitive societies, for example, women who obey the accepted rules of behavior are not sexually molested, while those who break the taboos are seen as asking for trouble. n118 Similarly, street harassment in modern cities keeps women in their place, reinforces the private-public split, and maintains a hierarchy of gender in everyday life. One writer describes this function as follows:
The first function of public harassment is to reinforce spatial boundaries that drastically limit women’s “sphere.” It clearly stakes out public space as male space. Women who want to be outside their [*542] homes must do so at their own risk and with the full knowledge that at any time they can be publicly humiliated or “complimented.” Women are at all times subject to public scrutiny. n119

The woman who is its target, of course, cannot know what psychological role harassment is fulfilling for the individual who accosts her; she is left simply with the message it conveys. For this reason, it seems safe to leap, if not from effect to intention, then from effect to social function and to conclude that “[h]arassment is a way of ensuring that women will not feel at ease, that they will remember their role as sexual beings available to men and not consider themselves equal citizens participating in public life.” n120 For those of us who believe in the ideal of equality, such a result is damaging not only to half of the human population, but to society as a whole.
In sum, the continuation and near-general tolerance of street harassment has serious consequences both for women and for society at large. It inflicts the most direct costs upon women, in the form of fear, emotional distress, feelings of disempowerment, and significant limitations upon their liberty, mobility, and hopes for equality. It also increases distrust between men and women and reinforces rigid gender roles, hierarchy, and the confinement of women to the private sphere. Street harassment thus performs a function as a social institution that is antithetical to the acceptance of women into American public life on terms equal to men.